צִבּוּר
tsib.bur
H6652
H:N-M
Hebrew
heap
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Hebrew
Language
tsib.bur denotes piles set out at a gate in the reported display of the king's sons' heads.
The attested use denotes separate piles placed at the entrance of a gate, referring in 2 Kings 10:8 to the arrangement ordered for the heads brought by the messenger.
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Piles placed at a gate · dominant
In 2 Kings 10:8, the masculine plural absolute form occurs in the order to place the brought heads in two such groupings at the entrance of the gate; the APB renders the clause, "Place them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning."
In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Kings 10:8, the APB presents the ordered arrangement as "two heaps" at the gate. This confirms the scene without isolating an exact English equivalent for the Hebrew form.